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fantasticphenomenal:

I did a (relatively smaller) mass follow, but I think I didn’t get everyone. Anyways, if you’re still intersted, follow the link.

Not to spam, but I’m now set up and comfortably operating at multiplicitiesoffreedom.tumblr.com (I wanted a blog that wasn’t linked by default to my hip-hop blog, and one that I could be less unsure about what ends up on my dashboard in order to facilitate my public viewing).

I'm Moving (to another tumblr) →

I did a (relatively smaller) mass follow, but I think I didn’t get everyone. Anyways, if you’re still intersted, follow the link.

In the course of the year there were some two hundred days on which, whether he liked it or not, [Yakov, a poor coffinmaker who played fiddle at weddings to make ends meet] had to sit with his hands folded. And only think, what a loss that meant. If anyone in the town had a wedding without music, or if Shahkes did not send for Yakov, that was a loss, too. The superintendent of the prison was ill for two years and was wasting away, and Yakov was impatiently waiting for him to die, but the superintendent went away to the chief town of the province to be doctored, and there took ill and died. There’s a loss for you, ten roubles at least, as there would have been an expensive coffin to make, lined with brocade. The thought of his losses haunted Yakov ….
… He took the book in which he used every day to put down his losses, and, feeling dull, he began adding up the total for the year. It came to more than a thousand roubles. This so agitated him that he flung the reckoning beads down, and trampled them under his feet. … He thought that if he had put that lost thousand roubles in the bank, the interest for a year would have been at least forty roubles, so that forty roubles was a loss too. In fact, wherever one turned there were losses and nothing else.

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“Chekhov on Opportunity Cost” (Anton P. Chekhov, “Rothschild’s Fiddle,” from Later Short Stories)

An intersting PDF (which I currently cannot find the source for) found browsing russian economic history articles in relation to russian literature. It’s kind of a weird fit for opportunity cost for Yakov in that there needs to be opportunity for there to be opportunity cost; an alternate use of his time, based on alternate economic choices (location, occupation, etc.) has not been laid out. Nonetheless, the implicit understanding that other opportunities are not offered by society, either because people cannot change professions, jobs are hard to come by, or an alternate explanation makes this an intersting look at societal opportunity cost. If there was something else Yakov could pursue or he had the mobility to find work in a another town, not only would Yakov be more productive, the society would be more productive for it. The opportunity cost for society is the sum of people like Anton less the cost whatever costs might be levied to offer greater opportunity.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

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Woody Allen, Annie Hall (via politicalprof)

I will forever chuckle inside when I hear this quote.

For the walk to school everyday.

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“From Off To On” by The Knife
from Silent Shout 

theeconomist:

Daily chart: computing power and stockmarkets. Moore’s Law, an observation that the “number of transistors incorporated in a chip will approximately double every 24 months”, has held broadly true since the creation of the first transistor in 1947. This advancement has facilitated the ability to trade ever-larger volumes of shares.

I’m reblogging this because a) it’s absurd and fantastic in proportion and b) because there are tradeoffs between costs of liquidity and benefits of liquidy on a societal scale. The more liquidity is availible to us, the faster the marginal cost of greater liquidity increases and the slower the marginal benefit increases. As you can see above, we’ve got a whole goddamn lot of liquidity.

1. Use mathematics as a shorthand language rather than as an engine of inquiry
2. Keep to them [your models/problems] till you have them done
3. Translate to english
4. Illustrate with examples important to real life
5. Burn the mathematics
6. If you can’t succeed in 4, burn 3

— Alfred Marshall’s rules for using mathematics in economics.

fuckyeahcliffordmattis:

pimp—c:

oswaldofusscheatham:

mymannemcee:

wtfced:

ajisreal:

wtfced:

chokesngags:

FUCK math. its either 90 or 45. lmaoooo

45

wait, i got 30.

using the PEMDAS method.

you simplify to 2x = 60

divide both sides by 2 to leave x = 30.

-shrugs-

i ain’t been to school since 06 doe.

aj. bruh. 360/4 is 90

Math problems are tumblrs greatest enemy.

45

#1 Why the fuck would you guess 90? Where perchance do you suppose this 90 mile per hour speed limit is? 

#2 What the fuck is PEMDAS?

#3 What the fuck?

Parenthesis
Exponents
Multiplication
Division
Addition
Subtraction

PEDMAS 

People, do math.

It helps.